Richard henry dana ship6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() While trying to arrange a spot aboard another ship, his Captain began to make things difficult for him, nearly refusing to allow Dana to leave. He spent much of his time on the California mainland in a hide house, curing and loading the hides onto the ship to be sent back to Boston.Īfter nearly a year away from home Dana was ready to go back. Dana witnessed the terrible mistreatment of the crew by their captain which included practices such as flogging. ![]() On Aughe shipped out from the port of Boston headed along the South American coast, around Cape Horn and back north for the Mexican province of Nueva California, or what we know as modern day California.Īt this time, maritime law was still very underdeveloped, giving Captains unchecked authority on the seas. This was especially unusual because his family was wealthy and he was more likely to be a passenger, than a common crewman. Unable to continue at Harvard he decided to take some time off, and at the age of 19, he signed up as a crew member for a merchant ship, the Pilgrim. In his third year of studying at Harvard University, Dana contracted the measles, from which complications resulted in his eyesight becoming so bad that studying became very difficult. was a lawyer and politician from Massachusetts who is famous for his classic book ‘ Two Years Before the Mast ’, recounting his time at sea aboard a ship transporting cow hides from California to Boston. ![]()
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